Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read that 10 players had threatened to ask for transfers if I stayed on … they were supposed to be polled by telephone by some members of the Board . |
| 2 | The children might have made a collection of shiny things or things made of metal , and be invited to think of things that they use at home which are shiny or made of metal . |
| 3 | Next refused to comment on reports that it might abandon its hardware business altogether . |
| 4 | In addition , or on inland waters a dayglo orange flag is sufficient , which can be waved to indicate to onlookers that you are in difficulty . |
| 5 | Her first commission came about quite casually : ‘ My husband and I had gone to stay with friends and they asked me to do a charcoal drawing of their Dachshund , Rosy . |
| 6 | The pride she had shown when Eva had been asked to speak at meetings when she was home on leave . |
| 7 | Danny , his wife and two kids were forced to lodge with friends while they searched for new digs . |
| 8 | for the first thirteen weeks of unemployment people are allowed to look for jobs that they want to do or are skilled or experienced to do but after thirteen weeks they will be compelled to take any job that comes along . |
| 9 | What it meant in human terms was that black UK citizens excluded from their own country ( Britain ) were and still are being forced to live in countries where they have no right to live or work . |
| 10 | And you were If you had a spare room you were all Well I think you were forced to take in troops and we had Elizabeth , a baby , and we had lodgers , nearly all the wartime . |
| 11 | Thus many techniques for analysis and reaction presented through in-service training as ‘ cut flowers ’ , have failed to grow in schools because they do not make sense to the teachers once back in their schools . |
| 12 | Until now , foreign aid agencies have chosen to ignore the opium growing around them , or chosen to operate in areas where it is not cultivated . |